HP is literally the company that will charge a laptop battery to 100% by default for a little bit more runtime on a random product test but exponentially less longevity. All the shitty HP office laptops at my last job would without fail have a bloated battery within 3 years, often taking the touchpad and other components with it.

Solution in search of a problem...

This is the sort of thing that gets developed for benevolent reasons, and then deployed as an excuse to outlaw any third-party servicing as dishonest log manipulation.

Every time I've tried to sell and/or give away my previous laptop, I discovered that nobody wants anything more than a few years old. A 6yo Acer laptop, that isn't running the latest windows, is basically worthless even in the eyes of charities. And a used laptop running linux, regardless of age, seems to be unwanted by everyone.

they sure know how to complicate simple stuff

The images contain date of the example report - 2023. Can we assume that the current HP laptops already gather all that information and store them, and the new "feature" is just a new way of extracting money from something they are already doing?

The images contain date of the example report - 2023. Can we assume that the current HP laptops already gather all that information and store them, and the new "feature" is just a new way of extracting money from something they are already doing

Isn't that caller eBay?